A 19thC Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Contemplative Gentleman c.1870 sub-Art & Sculpture The chest’s feet have been

The chest’s feet have been shortened meaning it is now lower but this aside it remains in an original state and has been professionally waxed by us with the draws all gliding comfortably

but in England models would have been 'blacked up' to produce these 'humorous' cards

Lundh’s meticulous brushwork here highlights the textural details of the birds' feathers and the contrast against the plain muted background is wonderfully suggestive

their large dining and smoking rooms

and Guilds

A 19thC Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Contemplative Gentleman c.1870 sub-Art & Sculpture The chest’s feet have beenOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Mid VictorianProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1870Height: 21Width: 17The bust length portrait of a contemplative and pensive gentleman in his older years, wearing a skull cap, and with his hand resting to his face, the whole on swirling dark ground, painted in oils on canvas and remaining unframed and unrestored and surviving from the latter half of the nineteenth century. The picture remains in original though unrestored condition